Women's Voices from the Margins

Drawing on the diary entries of twenty young women living in Kibera, a large slum outside of Nairobi, Kenya, Women's Voices from the Margins is an in-depth investigation into women's experiences of gender-based violence in the Global South. Elizabeth Swart employs relevant theory and feminist scholarship to ground her analysis in the broader context of globalization, while also attending to the specific responses and strategies used by these diarists to cope with gender-based violence.

Highlighting the implications of this qualitative study for policy practice and future research, this text considers the critical possibilities of localized interventions and is a valuable resource for students interested in women and violence, international social work, and women in the developing world.

Author: Elizabeth Swart
Publisher: Women's Press (UK)
Published: 05/01/2017
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780889615885

About the Author
Swart, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Swart is a Lecturer in the Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California. She is also a clinical counselor in private practice, specializing in trauma, intimate partner violence, and refugee and immigrant populations. As an ethnographic researcher, Swart has conducted multiple research projects working with marginalized populations of women in Kenya and the United States.

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